Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

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[[File:20 Kushok Bakula Rinpoche 2010-07-22.jpg|thumb|262x262px|20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche in 2010]]
[[File:Bakula Rinpoche 2011.jpg|thumb|262x262px|20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche in 2011]]
'''Kushok Bakula Rinpoche''' ({{bo|t=སྐུ་ཤོག་བ་ཀུ་ལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།}}) is nowadays the head of Pethup Gompa in [[Spituk]], [[Ladakh]], India. According to his followers he is an [[Emanationism|emanation]] of the Buddha [[Amitabha]] and was one of the 16 disciples of Buddha (Naytan Chudrug, or the [[Sixteen Arhats]]). They also claim that his first 19 incarnations have been documented in the Tibetan text ''Naytan Chagchot'' ({{bo|w=gNas hrtan phyag mchod}}).

==Name==
There are two different explanations for his name.

According to Tibetan chronicles, he was fond of doing meditation and praying and was very simple. After renouncing all worldly comforts he used ''pakula'' grass in his everyday life, especially as a sitting and sleeping mat.<ref name="RRL7">Namang Tsering Shakspo: "The role of incarnate Lamas in Buddhist tradition: A Brief Surveyof bakula Rinpoche's Previous Incarnations"in "Recent Research on Ladakh", Proceedings of the 7th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies held in Bonn/Sankt Augustin, 12–15 June 1995</ref>

The [[Manorathapurani]] and the Pali version of [[Milindapanha]] maintain him as being born at [[Kosambi|Kaushambi]] in a minister's family and then having been swallowed by a fish in the [[Yamuna]] river that was later caught by an angler. The angler sold it to another minister's wife, Upon cutting pen, the child was found unharmed and alive. The minister's wife adopted him. However, a dispute with his natural parents, about who should take care of him was resolved by the king, who judged that both should have custody of him. Thus, he became known as ''Dva Kula'' (Two Families).<ref name="RRL7"/>

== Incarnations ==
* 2nd: the second incarnation of Bakula was an Indian Mahasiddha [[Tilopa]] ({{bo|t=ཏི་ལོ་པ|w=Ti lo pa}}), or Sherab Zangpo ({{bo|t=ཤེས་རབ་བཟང་པོ|w=Shes rab bzang po}}) (Prajnabhadra). In order to spread the Buddha dharma. The king of Visnunagar offered Tilopa, a learned guru, 500 gold coins a day, if he would live at his court. Tilopa, however, wanted rather to live as a yogi and he quietly departed from the court and retreated near a cemetery to meditate. During that time, [[Naropa]] came to serve him. And through the practice of the six famous yoga lams (paths) he attained the mahamudra siddhi. After preaching extensively, he entered the heavenly abode of [[Amitābha]] during his lifetime.<ref name="RRL7"/>
* 3rd: manifested as the Indian Mahasiddha [[Luipa]] ({{bo |w= Laa wa pa}}). He abandoned his kingdom in Sri Lanka and journeyed to [[Pamban Island|Ramesvaram]], where he became a [[Bhikkhu]]. A [[Dakini]] at Dorje Dan ({{bo|w=rDo rje gdan|t=རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན}}) ([[Bodh Gaya]]) revealed to him an [[upaya]] for realising Buddhahood -- and in this way he continued practising for many years in a cemetery. Dakinis at [[Pataliputra]] further instructed him to remove his royal pride about the purity of foods, after which he sat in meditation for twelve years near river [[Ganges]], where he lived on the minute guts of fish rejected by the fishermen.<ref name="RRL7"/>
* 4th: a king who appears in the religious book 'Kadam Buchos'.
* 5th: Aryasura (Lopon Pawo, {{bo|w=sLob dpon dpa' bo}}), the disciple of [[Acharya Nagarjuna|Nagarjuna]] (Gonbo Ludup, {{bo|w=mGon po klu grub}}).
* 6th: Gyalwa Chogyangs, ({{bo|w=rGyal ba mchog dbyangs}}), one of Lopon Padma's twenty-five disciples.
* 7th: Ratna Udam (Nyamet Rinchen Chondus, {{bo|w=mNyam med rin chen brtson 'grus}}), the disciple of Kasdup Kyungpo, ({{bo|w=mKhas grub 'khyung po}}).
* 8th: Yeshe Dzin, dharmaguru of King Gedun Bang.
* 9th: [[Rinchen Sangpo|Lotsawa Rinchen Sangpo]], 954 - 1055.
* 10th: Geshe Chagpa Thrichog of the Kadmapa tradition.
* 11th: [[Rechung Dorje Drakpa]], 1083/4 – 1161
* 12th: Sthavira Lodros Choskyong<ref>[https://books.google.ch/books?id=7f0-AQAAIAAJ&q=Sthavira+lodros+choskyong&dq=Sthavira+lodros+choskyong&hl=de&ei=_oKVTfe2KpGdOrL3naIH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA The Tibet journal: Volume 24, page 41]</ref> was Khedrup Rinpoche's main disciple.
* 13th: Drupchen Choskyi Dorje (Mahasiddha Dharmavajra) was the pupil of Basco Chokyi Gyaltsen (Dharmadhvaja).
* 14th: Lobzang Jinpa (Sumatidana) was the main disciple of [[Lobsang Palden Yeshe, 6th Panchen Lama]].
* 15th: Yongdzin Yeshe Gyaltsen was the tutor of [[Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama]].
* 16th: Jetsun Ngawang Jampek Yeshe Gyatso, Khempo of [[Loseling]].
* 17th: Kongchog Rangdrol Nyima was the first Incarnation to appear in [[Ladakh]], he appeared in [[Lamayuru Monastery]].
* 18th: ?
* 19th: [[19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche|Thupstan Chognor]] ({{bo|w=thub bstan mchog nor}}), 21 May 1917 – 4 November 2003
* 20th: [[20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche|Thubstan Nawang]] ({{bo|w=thub bstan ngag dbang}}), born 24 November 2005

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